Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
“Data, Intelligence, and Graphs” (DIG) team, Office 4C20
19 place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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https://suchanek.name
GIVENNAME@suchanek.name
Public key rsa4096/CAA83288
| 2022- | Class A1 full professor at Télécom Paris, France |
| Télécom Paris is part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ranked top 50 in the world | |
| 2018-2023 | Lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique, France |
| 2016 | Full professor at Télécom Paris University, France |
| 2013 | Associate professor at Télécom Paris University, France |
| 2012 | Junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 2010 | Postdoctoral Researcher (reporting to Dr. Serge Abiteboul) at INRIA Saclay, Paris region, France |
| 2009 | Visiting Researcher (reporting to Dr. Rakesh Agrawal) at Microsoft Research in Mountain View, CA, USA |
| 2014 | French Habilitation (HDR), Sorbonne University, Paris, France |
| 2014 | German Habilitation (Venia Legendi), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 2008 | PhD in Computer Science (supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum), Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 2005 | Master of Science in Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 2003 | Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 2024 | Best Student Paper Award at KR 2024 for our work on contextual reasoning |
| 2024 | Best demo award of IJCAI 2024 |
| 2024 | Top 2% scientist according to Stanford University's list of “World's Top scientists” |
| 2024 | Aminer (Tsinghua U) Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Knowledge Engineering |
| 2022 | French Open Science Award for our YAGO project |
| 2021 | Best paper award of ESWC 2021 (when the conference was still ranked A) |
| 2018 | “Test of Time Award” of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), for our work on YAGO |
| 2018 | Best research paper nominee of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) |
| 2015 & 2016 & 2017 & 2019 | Top-evaluated lecture in the master’s program “Data&Knowledge” |
| 2018 | Second top-evaluated lecture in the master’s program “Data&Knowledge” |
| 2017 | Prominent Paper Award of the Artificial Intelligence Journal |
| 2015 | Outstanding Reviewer Award of the Int. Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014) |
| 2014 | Best Reviewer Award of the PIKM 2014 workshop, out of 23 reviewers |
| 2013 | Top 3 lecture in terms of teaching quality in Computer Science at Saarland University |
| 2013 | Best student paper award at the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2013) |
| 2012 | Best paper runner up of the Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP 2012) |
| 2011 | Best demo award at the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2011) |
| 2010 | Honorable Mention of the SIGMOD Dissertation Award |
| 2010 | Otto Hahn Medal, awarded to 30 PhD graduates each year in the Max Planck Society |
| 2005 | Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the PhD |
| 2005 | Günter Hotz Award, awarded to 3 out of ca. 250 Computer Science graduates at U Saarland |
| Year | Grantor | Project Name | Topic | Role | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | DGA | KB-LM | LLMs | PI | 450k € |
| 2021 | Hi Paris | (PhD scholarship) | Rule Mining | Advisor | 150k € |
| 2020 | DataIA | OTELO | Speech analysis | Contributor | 150k € |
| 2019 | ANR | NoRDF | NLP | PI | 1.3m € |
| 2018 | Télécom Paris | (PhD scholarship) | Explainable AI | Advisor | 100k € |
| 2017 | ENS Lyon | (PhD scholarship) | Knowledge bases | Advisor | 100k € |
| 2017 | ANR | DirtyData | Machine Learning | Contributor | 500k € |
| 2016 | ENS Cachan | (PhD scholarship) | Rule mining | Advisor | 100k € |
| 2016 | DigiCosme | MetaCog | Brain imaging | Contributor | 125k € |
| 2016 | ANR | DICOS | Schema mining | PI | 250k € |
| 2014 | DigiCosme | SEDA | Information Extraction | PI | 250k € |
| 2010 | MPG/Otto Hahn | Ontologies Group | Knowledge Bases | PI | <320k € |
I have also been a habilitation reviewer for Konstantin Todorov (2020, University of Montpellier).
I have since advanced also into the application, the mining, and the maintenance of knowledge. Therefore, a large part of my citations come from publications in very diverse areas: natural language processing, explainability, transformer architectures, rule mining, entity linking, query rewriting, speech recognition, textual inference, automated story generation, information extraction, Web services, watermarking of knowledge bases, information retrieval, knowledge mining, ontology matching, social tagging, inductive logic programming, efficient querying, computational creativity, data quality estimation, named entity recognition, and medical imaging.
All my publications are available on my homepage.
| 2014 - | Teaching at Télécom Paris, France, with 150-200 contact hours per year |
| 2022 | Summer school “Artificial Intelligence in Bergen” |
| 2020 | Summer school “Data Science and Engineering” at the East China Normal University (remotely) |
| 2019 | Summer school “Reasoning Web” at Bolzano University, Italy |
| 2017 | One week at Bucharest Polytechnical University, Romania |
| 2016 | One course at the RUSSIR Summer school in Saratov, Russia |
| 2013 | One course at the Saarland University, Germany |
| 2011 | One course at 3 universities in Senegal |
| 2025 | Member of the Research Council of Finland |
| 2024 | Jury for a professor position at École Polytechnique, France |
| 2024 | Jury for a professor position at École Centrale Supelec, France |
| 2025 | Member of the Reviewer Panel of the ERC Starting Grants |
| 2024 | Jury for an associate professor position at Télécom SudParis, France |
| 2024 | Member of the Research Council of Finland |
| 2023 | Member of the Reviewer Panel of the ERC Starting Grants |
| 2023 | Tutorial co-chair of WSDM 2023 |
| 2022 | Panel member for the French-German ANR grants |
| 2022 | External expert for the ERC Consolidator Grants |
| 2022 | External expert for the German Humboldt Foundation |
| 2022 | External expert for the German Research Foundation |
| 2022 | External expert for the Dutch Research Foundation |
| 2022 | PC co-chair of the ESWC 2022 conference (when it was still ranked A) |
| 2021 | Member of the Reviewer Panel of the ERC Starting Grants |
| 2019 | Jury for a professor position at École Polytechnique, France |
| 2018 | Treasurer of the The Web Conference 2019 (WWW 2019) |
| 2017 | Co-organizer of the New Researcher Symposium at SIGMOD 2017 |
| 2017 | Referee for the ERC Consolidator Grants |
| 2016 | Jury for a professor position at Université de Caen, France |
| 2016 | Co-organizer of the New Researcher Symposium at SIGMOD 2016 |
| 2015 | Demo chair of BDA (French national database conference) |
| 2015 | External expert for the Czech Science Foundation |
| 2015 | External expert for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research |
| 2015 | PC co-chair of the Web DB Workshop at SIGMOD 2015 |
| 2014 | PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at NIPS 2014 |
| 2013 | PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at CIKM 2013 |
| 2013 | PC co-chair of the PhD Workshop at CIKM 2013 |
| 2013 | Guest editor of a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics |
| 2012 | PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at NAACL 2012 |
| 2012 | PC co-chair of the PhD Workshop at CIKM 2012 |
| 2011 | PC co-chair of the PhD Workshopat CIKM 2011 |
| 2025 | Distinguished Speaker at the Max Panck Institute for Informatics, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2024 | International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) | (keynote) |
| 2024 | Huawei, Paris, France | (invited) |
| 2024 | Adeo, Lille, France | (seminar) |
| 2024 | Université de Versailles, France | (seminar) |
| 2024 | System X, Orsay, France | (seminar) |
| 2024 | STICS PhD day, Université Paris-Saclay, France | (invited) |
| 2024 | LIPADE team, Université Paris Cité, France | (invited) |
| 2024 | Hybrid AI workshop, Gif-sur-Yvette, France | (keynote) |
| 2023 | Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany | (invited) |
| 2023 | International Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR) | (keynote) |
| 2023 | Singapore University of Technology and Design | (seminar) |
| 2023 | Local chapter of SIGKDD in Singapore | (keynote) |
| 2023 | National University of Singapore | (seminar) |
| 2023 | Nanyang Technological University of Singapore | (seminar) |
| 2022 | Schlumberger France | (seminar) |
| 2022 | University of Paris-Saclay, France | (seminar) |
| 2022 | University of Osnabrück, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2022 | INRIA Paris, France | (seminar) |
| 2022 | LinkedIn, San Francisco, USA (remote) | (seminar) |
| 2021 | Megagon.ai (Recruit Group), Mountain View, USA (remote) | (seminar) |
| 2021 | Huawei Paris | (seminar) |
| 2021 | Workshop on Deep Learning for NLP | (keynote) |
| 2020 | French AI conference PFIA | (keynote) |
| 2020 | Schlumberger, France | (seminar) |
| 2020 | University of Galway, Ireland | (seminar) |
| 2020 | University College Dublin, Ireland | (seminar) |
| 2019 | Wikimedia Showcase Talk | (invited) |
| 2019 | EDOC Conference, Paris, France | (keynote) |
| 2019 | 50th anniversary of Computer Science in Saarbrücken, Germany | (invited) |
| 2019 | IBM Almaden, US | (seminar) |
| 2019 | University of California at Santa Cruz, USA | (seminar) |
| 2019 | INRIA Saclay, for the French minister of defense | (invited) |
| 2018 | Oxford University, UK | (seminar) |
| 2018 | Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2018 | École des Ponts et Chaussées, France | (invited) |
| 2017 | EPFL, Switzerland | (seminar) |
| 2017 | Wikidata Conference, Germany | (keynote) |
| 2017 | Bucharest Polytechnical University, Romania | (seminar) |
| 2017 | Kazan University, Russia | (seminar) |
| 2017 | Chelyabinsk University, Russia | (seminar) |
| 2017 | WSDM Cup Workshop | (keynote) |
| 2016 | Toronto University, Canada | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Waterloo University, Canada | (seminar) |
| 2016 | IBM Zürich, Switzerland | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Leopoldina Journalist College, Germany | (invited) |
| 2016 | IBM Almaden, California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Facebook, California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Apple, California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2016 | IBM Zürich, Switzerland | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Google Zürich, Switzerland | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Aalborg University, Denmark | (seminar) |
| 2016 | Wiki Workshop | (invited) |
| 2016 | French Workshop on Quality of Linked Data | (keynote) |
| 2016 | Paris 5 University, France | (seminar) |
| 2016 | SNIPS Seminar on Context-Sensitive Search | (invited) |
| 2015 | Workshop on Information and Communication Systems | (invited) |
| 2015 | 25th anniversary of the Max Planck Institute, Germany | (invited) |
| 2014 | KET workshop | (keynote) |
| 2015 | Central Bank of Brazil | (seminar) |
| 2015 | University of Bolzano, Italy | (seminar) |
| 2014 | EGC Conference | (keynote) |
| 2014 | New York Knowledge Engineering Meetup | (invited) |
| 2014 | APWeb Conference | (invited) |
| 2014 | AHA Workshop | (invited) |
| 2014 | University of Trento, Italy | (seminar) |
| 2014 | University of Bolzano, Italy | (seminar) |
| 2014 | East China Normal University, Shanghai, China | (seminar) |
| 2014 | Stanford, California, USA | (invited) |
| 2014 | INRA, Paris, France | (seminar) |
| 2013 | Yahoo Inc., California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2013 | Google Inc., California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2013 | Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2013 | Singapore Management University, Singapore | (seminar) |
| 2012 | Webdam-Modas Workshop | (invited) |
| 2012 | WOLE Workshop at ISWC 2012 | (keynote) |
| 2011 | Gaston Berger University, Senegal | (seminar) |
| 2011 | Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK | (seminar) |
| 2011 | University of Grenoble, France | (seminar) |
| 2010 | SeCo workshop | (invited) |
| 2010 | University of Bolzano, Italy | (seminar) |
| 2010 | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | (seminar) |
| 2010 | INRIA Saclay, France | (seminar) |
| 2010 | Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK | (seminar) |
| 2010 | University of Oxford, UK | (seminar) |
| 2009 | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | (seminar) |
| 2008 | Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, California, USA | (seminar) |
| 2008 | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2008 | University of Washington, USA | (seminar) |
| 2008 | L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2008 | University of Osnabrück, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2008 | DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany | (seminar) |
| 2019- | Member of the jury for the admission of PhD track students and master students in AI at IP Paris |
| 2020 - 2021 | Responsible for the PhD track Computer Science at IP Paris |
| 2019 - 2021 | Vice-president of the Computer Science Department of IP Paris |
| 2019 - 2021 | Responsible for the 9 master’s programs in Computer Science at IP Paris |
| 2019 | Responsible for the master’s program “DataAI” at IP Paris |
| 2017 - | Co-responsible for the Continuing Education program in Data Science at Telecom Paris |
| 2017 - 2018 | Responsible for the 21 master’s programs in Computer Science at U Paris-Saclay |
| 2014 - 2016 | Co-/Vice-responsible for the 21 master’s programs in Computer Science at U Paris-Saclay |
| 2014 - 2018 | Co-responsible for the calendar harmonisation at U Paris-Saclay |
| 2013 - 2020 | Responsible of the master’s program “Data & Knowledge” at U Paris-Saclay |
| 2012 - 2013 | Representative of the Scientific Staff of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics |
| German | fluent (mother tongue) |
| English | fluent (language of teaching, 1 year in the US) |
| French | fluent (language of teaching, 10 years in France) |
| Italian | good knowledge (8 semesters of study, Unicert 2) |
| Romanian | reasonable knowledge (studying at A2 level) |
| Spanish | rudimentary knowledge (8 semesters of study, Unicert 2, but long ago) |
| Latin | knowledge at homeopathic level (3 years at school, Latinum, very long ago) |
| 2013 - 2019 | Teaching a 6 year dancing course at Télécom Paris, France |
| 2016 | Teaching a 7 week ballroom dancing class at the American University of Paris |
| 2013 | Teaching a 14 week dancing course at the sports center of Saarland University |
| 2010 - 2011 | Teaching a 52 week dancing course at Télécom Paris, France |
| 2008 | Teaching an 18 week dancing course at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics |
| 2007 | Teaching a 10 week dancing course at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics |